“Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said the U.S. is facing ‘grave threats’ to financial stability and warned that the credit crisis has started to damage household and business spending. ‘Economic activity appears to have decelerated broadly,’ Bernanke said today to a congressional Joint Economic Committee hearing, downgrading the assessment of Fed officials when they met on Sept. 16.”
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